The Air Force says that fiscal year 2008 funding for the KC-45 program will not be raided this summer to pay for other Pentagon priorities if Boeing's protest of the decision to award the tanker contract to Northrop Grumman is denied by the Government Accountability Office. Boeing's protest, which could force a 100-day program delay, could consume three-and-a-half of the seven months in the fiscal year that the Air Force planned to work on the program. But the delay is...
